DETROIT -- The good news for Jordan Zimmermann in his first rehab start at Triple-A Toledo Sunday night was that he threw a long inning and felt fine. The bad news was the long inning that resulted in a short outing, with seven runs on seven hits and two walks while recording two outs, one of them a strikeout, against Norfolk.
"We were trying to get him up 60-70 pitches, and he had 38 pitches in one inning," Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Yeah, that wasn't pretty, but the health result was what we were looking for, and he's healthy.